About the Contributors

About the Contributors Nik Bessis is currently a senior lecturer and head of postgraduate taught courses, in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at University of Bedfordshire (UK). He obtained a BA from the TEI of Athens in 1991 and completed his PhD (2002) and MA (1995) at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His research interest is the development of distributed information systems for virtual organizations with a particular focus in next generation Grid technology; data integration and data push for the creative and other sectors. * * * Giuseppe Andronico received his degree on theoretical physics with his thesis on the methods in Lattice QCD on July 1991. Since 2000, he is working in Grid computing collaborating with EDG, EGEE and other projects. In 2006 and 2007 was technical manager in the project EUChinaGRID where started his work with interoperability between GOS and EGEE. Vassiliki Andronikou received her MSc from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Depart- ment of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2004. She has worked in the bank and telecommunications sector, while currently she is a research associate in the Telecommunications Laboratory of the NTUA, with her interests focusing on the security and privacy aspects of biometrics and data management in Grid. Nick Antonopoulos is currently a senior lecturer (US associate professor) at the Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK. He holds a BSc in physics (1st class) from the University of Athens in1993, an MSc in information technology from Aston University in 1994 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Surrey in 2000. He has over 9 years of academic experience during which he has designed and has been managing advanced Master’s programmes in computer science at the University of Surrey. He has published over 60 research articles in distributed systems, peer-to-peer networks and software agents. Chimay J. Anumba is a professor and department head of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests include advanced engineering informatics, concurrent engineering, intelligent systems, and project management. He has over 400 publications in these fields and has received over £15m in research funding from a variety of sources. Professor Anumba is co-editor of the International Journal of Information Technology in Construction, ITCon. He has Copyright © 2009, IGI Global, distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. About the Contributors recently held/holds visiting professorships at numerous prestigious universities including Stanford University and MIT (USA). He has also received several awards for his work, including a Doctor of Science (DSc) from Loughborough University (UK) and an honorary Doctorate from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Eleana Asimakopoulou has a first degree in architecture and a PhD in managing natural disasters using Grid technology. She is currently teaching in the Construction Department of Barnfield College, an associated College of the University of Bedfordshire. Eleana is a reviewer in several international conferences and her research interests include Grid technology, emergency response and planning for natural disasters, business continuity, construction and risk management. Roberto Barbera is a professor at the University of Catania. His research fields are nuclear and particle physics and he is involved in the ALICE Experiment at CERN. Since 1999 he is interested in Grid computing. He is currently an executive member of INFN Grid with coordination responsibilities in many EU funded projects worldwide. David W. Birchall is an emeritus professor at Henley Business School, University of Reading. David’s research interests are in the area of management learning and innovation practices in organizations. He has particular expertise in the development of systems to support remote learners. David has consulted and lectured throughout the world on aspects of innovation, technology and organization capabilities, organizational learning and knowledge management. Dino Bouchlaghem is a professor of architectural engineering at Loughborough University. His research interests include collaborative visualization, design for safety and security, disaster management, construction information technology, and design management. He is the coordinator of the CIB International Task Group in Architectural Engineering (TG49) and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Architectural Engineering and Design Management. Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva is a senior professor in BEM Management School Bordeaux (France). She holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Moscow State University (Russia). She has worked for Medtronic, consulted for Northwest Airlines, Sogerma, Ford Aquitaine, Legrand. Her research is in decision-making and decision support. Her articles were published in internationally recognized journals including Decision Science, European Journal of Operational Research; she is an editor-in-chief of the International Business Management Journal. Marina Burakova-Lorgnier holds a PhD in social psychology from Rostov-on-Don State University, Russia. She is a lecturer at the École de Commerce Européenne, INSEEC group, France. Her research interests cover such areas as gender identity, social network, social capital, leadership and knowledge management. Currently she seeks to bring together the issues of trust and control in organizational knowledge sharing in a cross-disciplinary perspective. Dr. Burakova-Lorgnier has served as a confer- ence, textbook and journal reviewer and an expert for the Russian local government councils and NGO’s and the Embassy of France in Russia. About the Contributors Yun-Heh Chen-Burger is a senior researcher in informatics, University of Edinburgh. Her research areas are knowledge management and intelligent systems. Dr Chen-Burger specializes in semantics and knowledge based techniques; and automated support for enterprise and process modeling methods. Her book “Automated Business Modelling” was published in “Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing” series, by Springer in 2005. Gordon Clapworthy is a professor of computer graphics at the University of Bedfordshire (UK). He has a BSc (Class 1) in mathematics and a PhD in aeronautical engineering from the University of London, and an MSc (dist.) in computer science from City University (London). He has been involved in 18 European projects, coordinating 7 of them. Rogério Luís de Carvalho Costa is a PhD student at the University of Coimbra – Portugal and ag- gregate professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) – Brazil, where he teaches undergraduate curricula. His research interests include data warehousing, parallel and distributed database systems, database self-tuning and bioinformatics. James Dooley received his BSc in robotics and intelligent machines from the University of Essex (UK). Since then he has been studying for his PhD in computer science from the same university with funding from the British Telecom. Currently he is completing his PhD part-time, whilst working sepa- rately on European projects with City University (UK). Marco Fargetta graduated in computer engineering in 2002. In 2006, he received his PhD from Catania University, in Italy, with a thesis on advanced Grid scheduling. Since then, he has been involved in several Grid projects. Currently he works with the Consortium COMETA and his activity focuses on the support of HPC applications on Grid computing. Geoffrey C Fox is a chair of the Indiana University Department of Informatics and director of the Community Grids Laboratory. He holds a PhD in physics (high energy) from Cambridge University (1968). His research interests include parallel computing models on multicore systems, Web service architectures, distributed messaging systems, and cloud computing. Pedro Furtado is an assistant professor and senior researcher at the University of Coimbra, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. His research interests include data warehousing, parallel and distributed database systems, performance and scalability, distributed data intensive systems. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Coimbra, Portugal in 2000. Genoveffa Giambona is a research manager at the Research Institute for the Built Environment, University of Reading. Jeni’s research interests are in the area of leadership development, management learning, virtual teams and trust. She also researches meta-evaluation and the study of how learning mechanisms work in different contexts and cultures. She has published and presented at different conferences on these topics and on the subject of meta-evaluation of e-learning programmes. Emidio Giorgio received his MSc computer science degree, cum laude, in 2003; he begun its col- laboration with INFN on computational grids in 2004, joining the EGEE project in NA3 area, related About the Contributors to users training. In the context of the ICEAGE project, he has been the manager for WP4, concerning the operations for its multi-middleware Infrastructure. Dimitrios Halkos is a research associate in the Telecommunication Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA (2001) and obtained his PhD (2008) in the area of maritime operational

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